Word: lukewarm
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...deposit guarantee bill was not part of President Roosevelt's legislative program. He was. in fact, lukewarm to it. Secretary of the Treasury Woodin had frowned on many of its features. One of its authors was Virginia's Carter Glass. But Senator Glass had accepted the guarantee clause only as the cheapest and safest price he had to pay to the radical majority of Congress for passing the rest of his cherished bank reforms. The bill's other author was Alabama's Henry Bascom Steagall, smalltown lawyer and chairman of the House Banking & Currency Committee...
...independent "buffer state"' between China and Manchukuo. He asked Sir Miles where was a Chinese with sufficient authority to negotiate for China. Sir Miles named the Chinese Foreign Minister Dr. Lo Wen-kan. Then he went to see Dr. Lo. To all this the Japanese Foreign Office remained lukewarm. It announced the Japanese drive might go "right down to Canton" some 1,200 miles south of Tientsin. Before it began dickering it wanted proof that China was "serious" about wanting to dicker. Meanwhile in the evacuated territory north of Tientsin the Chinese soldiers strutted like heroes for their brief...
...Edouard Daladier limited himself to a lukewarm acceptance of the four-power pact, there were many ventriloquist dummies available to say what he and most Frenchmen really felt. Loudest was the French Press, howling down the Mussolini Plan as an international plot to render France defenseless and rob her of hard-earned gains...
...Geneva. U. S. Ambassador Gibson was reading the Hoover plan to the assembled delegates at the Disarmament Conference. The President had made his proposal as a bold and radical attempt to galvanize the conference into action after five months of fumbling. Its reception by the Conference was only lukewarm. But plain as a pikestaff was the fact that if the Conference rejected the U. S. proposal and then adjourned, the U. S. door would be slammed upon all European powers who might come to Washington seeking reduction of their War Debts because of hard times. The President's plan...
...That naval limitation proceed by an extension of the Washington and London Naval Pacts (proposed by the U. S., Britain and Italy with France and Japan lukewarm...